Ejb3 Basics: Deploying Message Driven Beans

Farewell to lazy auto queue generation in JBoss 5 MDB’s were never so easy to deploy and manage when ejb3 first came out. In Jboss 4, all you have to do was annotate a class with @MessageDriven, sprinkle some meta data here and there, stick it in the oven and wham! Instant “I cant believe [...]

Posted on February 2, 2010 at 12:37 am by Ant · Permalink · Leave a comment
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War deployment file structure

What’s a war deployment, do I need my own army? When it comes to deploying an web based application we have a few options on the table. Well only one really if you stick to J2EE standards, not counting Ear deployments which also deploy web apps via wars. Outside the world of J2EE though, it [...]

Posted on January 25, 2010 at 12:03 am by Ant · Permalink · One Comment
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Basic Ant scripts

What’s an Ant script? Do I need bug spray? Ant is a scripting tool commonly used to build, compile and deploy projects. This is in no way an all encompassing inventory of what Ant can do. It is extensible and its instructions are expressed in an xml format whose nodes comprise a framework of abilities [...]

Posted on January 13, 2010 at 8:22 pm by Ant · Permalink · Leave a comment
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External Jboss deploy directories

Why not use the default jboss deploy directory? To keep things Out of the box, jboss has a bunch of .sar, .war, and .jar deployment artifacts as well as a bunch of xml files in the default deploy directory (whose path is “jboss-install-dir/server/configured-server-instance/deploy”). For the sake of being neat and cautious, I prefer to break [...]

Posted on January 11, 2010 at 5:36 pm by Ant · Permalink · Leave a comment
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